ladykatza

My mother-in-law just called to tell me that she had to sit in line for three house to get gas after searching for an hour just to find a station that has some. Then the pump ran out in the middle of filling up. The Circle K near my house has been out of gas since the day after Ike made landfall in Texas.

I remember sitting in gas lines when I was very little, playing with toys in the backseat. We had two cars, one with even plate numbers, one with odd. The system was odd fill up on odd numbered days, even on even. So every day for six months Mom and I sat in gas lines in the scorching California sun listening to AM radio while she did embroidery. I hope we don’t have to go back to that any time soon.